Power consumption isnt that great in these reviews, this contradicts what AMD said before but thats not a big surprise considered the production technology, this should remove any doubt that Intel is still many years ahead of the pack with their high-k/metalgates. Nice improvement over the original Phenom anyway and not terrible far behind Intel.
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The power consumption of our X4 940 test system was misleading. While it generated an equivalent idle power draw to the Core i7 system, and bested it by 10W during full load, when actual work needed to be done, i.e. our real-world application test suite, the Phenom II took longer to complete each task and used more power doing so.
Some interesting benchmarks
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Some interesting benchmarks here.
Just maybe, AMD is finally getting back in the game.
Thanks for the links Zxian
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Thanks for the links Zxian and Donald.
Power consumption isnt that great in these reviews, this contradicts what AMD said before but thats not a big surprise considered the production technology, this should remove any doubt that Intel is still many years ahead of the pack with their high-k/metalgates. Nice improvement over the original Phenom anyway and not terrible far behind Intel.
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Phenom II looks awesome. I
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Phenom II looks awesome. I would like to get one once prices drop on systems with them.